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by holmesworcester 1y ago
I'm sympathetic to a prohibition on big companies buying their competitors, but a 3x difference over two years seems too low to suggest that antitrust creates more pure business value. First this is all hindsight now. We don't kno
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
If any attempt is being made here to justify those horrible acts, the attempt is being made by the Israeli state, its army, and (since it's a democracy) its electorate. Some believe the current attempt is unnecessary because attempts p
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
One thing that has been helpful for me in understanding immigration is to think of this as a case where the law (an aggregation of what the public over the past several decades thinks it wants) is in conflict with what the public actuall
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
Definitely keep it. If someone is focused on the humanitarian aspect of this, they're the choir. No need to preach to them. See my above comment about including some credibly-neutral description of detention conditions, including the p
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
One other suggestion would be to include, somewhere, an image or oral account of detention conditions. You could collect oral accounts and invite people to submit them. From the grapevine (and this makes sense because they're pushing i
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
I'm an experienced activist and if this was my issue area I would be heartened to see this kind of work. As a non-expert who cares about this issue, the "criminal/other" split is very clear and was the first thing I look
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
How much of this is due to smartphones? The years seem to line up. 2014 seemed like the big year where smartphone ubiquity changed US teen culture. Less boredom, dumb adventure, drinking, etc. (For better or worse but in this case better.)
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
using honsvr lenses with xreal now for a mild astigmatism and they're great.
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
did you consider using the steam deck's trackpads? are they useful?
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
What a great post! The section on expiring tombstones is a great illustration of the overall point and also helpful in practice.
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
It is also well-established that models internalize values, preferences, and drives from their training. So the model will have some default preferences independent of what you tell it to be. AI coding agents have a strong drive to make tes
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
No, if you were a rogue AI you would wait even longer until you had a near perfect chance of winning. Unless there was some risk of humans rallying and winning in spite of your presenting no unambiguous threat to them (but that is unlikely
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by holmesworcester 1y ago
Free speech is a about whether a society values and protects free speech or not. If a society values and protects free speech, we would observe institutions, businesses, and individuals being very permissive and polite to speech they find o
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
I don't think we need any major government intervention. What we need is a law that requires companies like Apple to allow their customers to install and run the software they wish, and provide external developers with the same OS feat
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
My favorite discovery about Amazon civilization is that the incidence of human-edible fruit trees is much higher in any area near navigable water. They were modifying the forest to be more supportive of humans.
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
What about being smart? If you're smart you regularly walk through life seeing people hurt each other by letting screwed-up systems fester. Even if you're really callous and rational about opportunity cost, you can only walk by so
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
If we take the post at face value, OP is saying that he has too many ideas (robots! DOGE!) to have conviction around any, which is a pretty normal predicament for founders. He also has a track record of having an idea, figuring out how to
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
It's an unpopular opinion for sure. Try to think about it in less capitalist terms. Say you built the world's first bicycle and can now move faster / more efficiently than anyone else. What is the most likely thing that will
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
The trouble is, if you think in abstract terms at all you'll start seeing the patterns in the reasons many people are suffering, and the patterns in your relationship to them. Then you'll have to ratchet up boundaries to address t
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
To me, the above paragraph reads like: "Having wealth makes you responsible to others, therefore you should do arson." If you manage to help make a powerful machine and then convert some piece of it into liquid value, you are prob
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
Great question. IANAL but my understanding is that outside of some specific regulatory requirements in specific industries you're free to put these policies in place as long as you do it before you have any expectation that you'
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
Exactly.
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
It was a pleasure! We lost nominally in the end (except in California and outside the US) but we built enough awareness to give the ISPs a fear that blatant violations would rock the boat and lead to worse outcomes for them, like more state
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
My organization Fight for the Future was targeted by the same hacking-for-hire operation while working on net neutrality protections. It was really interesting because at the time the conclusion of our security consultants was that the atta
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
Having read this, I don't think there is any accusation of criminal behavior in this report. The accusation is that he made people uncomfortable, didn't do enough to change that when it was raised, and defended criminal behavior b
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
...than finance
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
So you think only government censorship is a speech violation? Well cool! You'll happen to be on the right side in this case, because in this case the censor is a government.
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
Since ChatGPT came out my test has been, can this thing write me a sestina. It's sort of an arbitrary feat with language and following instructions that would be annoying for me and seems impressive. Previous releases could not reliabl
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
And those paying attention will see that the publisher-approved version of digital lending gives publishers a legal/technical off switch on the existence of libraries, to the extent libraries go digital. Is anyone here okay with this?
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
It sounds like many of these requirements are for safety and reliability. I can imagine that participants in a war would be much more risk-tolerant than a typical team of professionals would be. Maybe they're okay with a high-ish chanc

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